[Olsr-users] hna per interface

[Henning Rogge]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 22:08, Antonio Anselmi <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> I've a - maybe stupid - question related to HNA, ie if it's possible
> to have host/network announcements per interface.
>
> The idea is to configure something like a mesh-bridge on a
> dual-radio/dual-band device.
>
> Suppose that one node definitely gets internet via olsrd on a 5GHz
> iface (so the node is seen as a repeater in the 5 GHz mesh ) and then
> the same node announces itself as gateway on a 2.4 GHz iface so that
> the node is seen as gateway in 2.4GHz mesh.
>
> [dsl]--wired--[5GHz - 0/0 gw node]--olsrd--[5GHz | 2.4GHz -0/0 gw
> gateway]--olsrd---(mesh)
>
> This way olsrd conf should have no HNA on athx iface and HNA 0/0 on
> athy iface without lettting topology information pass from one to the
> other.
OLSR handles HNA's per node/router, not per interface. even if you
send out your HNA only through one interface, there might be other
paths where your HNA message will be forwarded to the other part of
the network.

Henning Rogge

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